bladehunter, any modifcation I make to initittab survives reboots on my computer (option 1 install). that's just a technical fact.

I don't know how to prove it to you. I'm sure you know I'm not wanting a dispute with you or anyone, I hope a couple interested third partys joins in and does some verification for us regarding its behavior on their computers.

I am a careful worker and I can tell if a file gets replaced or not. You are a careful worker also. I want to know why the difference.

If it didn't survive reboots, I could work around that. The main point is: how do I create additional virtual text consoles? Here is the code you posted and it doesn't work for me either.

What happens is that all the /etc files from the initrd are copied to /newroot/etc.......then we do a pivot root which just gives us a new root to work from.....The boot process is then taken over from the new root..When init starts it looks at a pristine copy of /etc/inittab (ie from the initrd)....The inittab you see after booting is the one contained in the pup001 file which is the one you edited. Since pup001 is mounted AFTER init starts it's not reading your inittab.....That's why it has to be edited in image.gz so that the modified file is available BEFORE init starts.....Mind tho this is not the case with an option 2 hdd install as everything is stoed on the disk and initrd is not required....
If you want, and have a fast connection, I can modify image.gz for you, host it on my site for you to download. Just backup your orig file, put mine in the correct place and if it doesn't work I'll by you a case of VB....

I think that inittab is only read once, that's why in you delete it from /etc it still works as you are only changing the copied in your pup001 file...the same thing happens with all the bootscripts except /etc/rc.local, the copies in /etc/pup001 will survive but the changes wont affect a reboot.

bladehunter, it took less than five minutes and it works fine if inittab is modified in image.gz

THANKS!

As far as I'm concerend on an option 1 install /etc/inittab can be used for storing love letters, because it doesn't seem to do a thing.

This is too cool, Puppy with four virtual consoles. I like my curses programs and in X I have too many problems with keystrokes not doing like they should with curses apps, worse some don't support mouse, so your out of luck when it comes to program control.

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